{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1945/15",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-northern-ireland-1945",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Venue in indictable offences.",
  "text": "(1) A person charged with the commission in Northern Ireland of any indictable offence [ or with the commission of an indictable offence cognisable under the law of Northern Ireland] may be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished in any … place in which he was apprehended, or is in custody on a charge for the offence or has appeared in answer to a summons lawfully issued charging the offence, as if the offence had been committed in that … place, and the offence shall, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the prosecution, trial or punishment thereof, be deemed to have been committed in that … place:\nProviso rep. by 1978 c.23\nSubs.(2) rep. by 1978 c.23\n(3) Nothing in this section shall affect the laws relating to the government of His Majesty's naval, military or air forces.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1967 c.18 (NI); 1964 c.21 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1967 c.18 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1978 c.23"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1945/15/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:51.819997+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}